Diese Kurzexpertise zeigt anhand von quantitativen und qualitativen Analysen auf, vor welchen Herausforderungen die deutschen Kommunen in Folge der aktuellen Corona-Krise stehen. Auch über 2020 hinaus brauchen…
Das Bundeskabinett plant die Einführung einer digitalen Rentenübersicht und hat einen Gesetzesentwurf dazu verabschiedet. Unter dem Dach der Deutschen Rentenversicherung Bund soll dazu ein Informationsportal…
This paper analyses the causal effects of weaker dismissal protection on the incidence of long-term sickness (> six weeks). We exploit a German policy change, which shifted the threshold exempting small…
Non-pecuniary incentives motivated by insights from psychology (“nudges”) have been shown to be effective tools to change behavior in a variety of fields. An often unanswered question relevant for public policy…
We examine whether a disclosure mandate for greenhouse gas emissions creates stakeholder pressure for firms to subsequently reduce their emissions. For UK-incorporated listed firms such a mandate was adopted in…
We analyze the extent to which private defensive litigation insurance deters patent assertion by non-practicing entities (NPEs). We study the effect that a patent-specific defensive insurance product, offered by…
The following paper assesses whether current policy environments are appropriate for the emergence of cloud computing technology. In particular, this research uses firm-level data for Germany and the UK to…
